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This is another craft that we did after my son watched an episode of Artzooka!. The episode showed how you can change the look of the same picture by adding different backgrounds and different frames. My son just picked up the idea of making a frame for his picture, so we didn’t photocopy his drawing to make multiple frames/backgrounds. The instructions for this particular craft can be found here, but it doesn’t give instructions on how to make a frame, it just gives suggestions on what to use and how to decorate.

Here’s what we did:

Draw a picture.

Add a background (Danny chose to do those with purple marker).

Tape your picture to cardboard. I used a cheerios box that I cut out a little bigger than the drawing.

Cut out pieces of craft foam to cover the cardboard border. This is what made our frame.

Glue the craft foam to the cardboard using a good tacky glue. I have found that Aleene’s Super Thick Tacky Glue works really well for hard to hold items (craft foam, pipe cleaners, pom-pom’s etc.)

Cut off the excess card board.

Next came the part where this project went off the rails. But, hey, that’s the fun when you do crafts with preschoolers. We were now supposed to decorate the frame. Danny asked for paints, so I got out the paints, and he proceeded to paint over his drawing…Then he asked to decorate the frame with foam flowers. I pieced together the flower using three thin strips of craft foam and a lot of scotch tape. I would put the tutorial up, but lets just say my way of making that flower wasn’t exactly an elegant solution.

I thought it was a shame that Danny painted over his cute self portrait, but my husband still gave it a place of honour on the office wall. It was a fun project although I ended up doing more if it than I would have liked. If Danny is still into crafts, we’ll try it again in a few years when he can help with the design and cutting.